Reply #42: Don't they use the same runways [View All]

[DoYouEverWonder]

for take offs and landings?

I would be very surprised if they were allowing anything to take off from Reagan after the 2nd Tower got hit, because even if Reagan wasn't ordered to stop allowing take offs at that point, they would still be trying to accommodate all of the 100's of planes that were coming into NYC, that suddenly needed to find a new place to land.

However, we do know that down at Andrews AFB, they were still allowing 'cargo' planes to take off as late as 9:30 AM.